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Secrets of the Kingdom
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Secrets of the Kingdom
British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-89
Richard L Greaves
This volume completes a trilogy that explores the history of British political and religious radicalism - in England, Scotland, Ireland, and British exile communities on the Continent - from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the Revolution of 1688-89. The trilogy underscores both the continuity and the geographical range of dissident activity in all three kingdoms over nearly three decades.
Much of the present volume deals with the controversial conspiracies collectively (and misleadingly) known as the Rye House Plot. Whether these conspiracies actually existed has been disputed since the 1680's, and the problem of evaluating the evidence regarding them is complicated by the fact that both Whigs and Tories freely engaged in subornation, severely undermining the credibility of many accounts, not to mention the integrity of the judicial system. The book traces the complete history of the Rye House Plot, including the general uprising planned by Monmouth and his associates, the schemes to assassinate Charles and James, and the trials of a number of conspirators. The author concludes that, on balance, the evidence affirms the existence of conspiracies against the crown.
The author describes and analyzes several other instances of radical activity: the assassination of the Archbishop of St. Andrews, the Bothwell Bridge rebellion, the Argyll and Monmouth rebellions, and the involvement of the radicals in the events leading up to the revolution of 1688-89. Historiographically, the book is part of a major reassessment of the late Stuart period which accords greater attention to the significance and contribution of British radicals. It is now clear that radical activity continued throughout the British Isles during the reigns of Charles II and James II, and even beyond, and that Restoration Nonconformists were not uniformly quiescent and passive.
The first volume in the trilogy, Deliver Us from Evil: The Radical Underground in Britain, 1660-1663, was published in 1986 by Oxford University Press. The second volume, Enemies Under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664-1677, was published in 1990 by Stanford University Press.
Richard L. Greaves is Robert O Lawton Distinguished Professor of History and Courtesy Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He is the author of editor of more than a dozen books.
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Title Secrets of the kingdom: British radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-1689
Author Richard L. Greaves
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804720525, 9780804720526
Length 465 pages
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Enemies Under His Feet
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Most historians have hitherto assumed that militant Protestantism was nearly extinct during the Restoration -- that radical opponents of the government of Charles II, apart from a handful of fanatics, were thoroughly demoralized by their defeat at the hands of Royalists and Churchmen, and either shed their radicalism entirely or else turned their zeal inward toward quiteism. The author convincingly shows that this accepted view has greatly underestimated the extent to which organized opposition to the restored Stuart regime was present in the 1660's and 1670's.
Much of the material in this book, drawn almost exclusively from rarely used archival material in England, Scotland, and the Netherlands will be new to students of the period. But it was familiar enough to Charles II and his advisers, whose agents uncovered everything from assassination plots to seditious conspiracies and planned rebellions. The author's detailed account shows that radical dissent, far from dying out, simply went underground. The author also looks at the problem of toleration for nonconformists, and shows how this issue was directly related to the activities of radical militants.
The book covers radical activity in England, Scotland, and Ireland, was well as in exile communities in the Netherlands and Switzerland, seeking to determine not only what the radicals were doing but what connections existed among them. What emerges is a vivid account of the tangled web of conspiracy, idealism, frustration, resiliency, and ineptitude in the far flung radical community. We also gain insight into the place of that community in the broader world of nonconformity. The government had difficulty understanding this world, but it expended considerable effort to develop and implement policies to deal with the militants. To overlook this fact is to omit a fundamental aspect of Charles II's reign, and thus distort our understanding of it.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title Enemies under his feet: radicals and nonconformists in Britain, 1664-1677
Author Richard L. Greaves
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990
ISBN 0804717753, 9780804717755
Length 324 pages
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Contents
Dutch War I xiv
Radicals on the Eve of the Dutch War 3
The Exile 15
The Scots and the Galloway 49
Hot Fiery Young Teachers 86
Physical Assaults on Scottish Clergy 96
Radical Political 103
Irish Security 109 Nonconformists in Ireland 112
The Nonconformist Challenge 121
The Radical Press 5
Kidnappers and Crown Jewels 191
Kidnapping 204 The Theft of the Crown Jewels 215
Radicalism and the Policy of Indulgence 224
Notes 253
Index 307
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